GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon VII, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 memory runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon VII		27400 points
GeForce RTX 2080		26155 points
	Difference: 1245 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (37%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 overall. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 589824 (129%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII should be quite a bit (approximately 21%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2080. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57240 (21%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 should be just a bit (more or less 8%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon VII, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7360 (8%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.